Seoul, September 3, 2025 – SK hynix Inc. announced it has assembled what the company said is the industry’s first high numerical aperture extreme ultraviolet lithography (NA EUV) lithography system for mass production at the M16 fabrication plant in Icheon, South Korea. The company described High NA EUV as a next-generation lithography system that designed […]
SandboxAQ Announces ‘SAIR’ Open Dataset for Drug Discovery
June 18, 2025 by
Palo Alto, CA; June 18, 2025 – SandboxAQ today announced the launch of SAIR (Structurally Augmented IC50 Repository), a dataset of protein-ligand pairs with annotated experimental potency data for computational drug discovery. Leveraging NVIDIA DGX Cloud, a development platform for AI training and fine-tuning, and SandboxAQ’s advanced AI Large Quantitative Model (LQM) capabilities, SandboxAQ generated […]
Petrobras Brazil Awards $138M HPC Contract to Atos Bull
June 2, 2025 by
A recent report in Bnamericas stated that Atos Bull has won a supercomputing contract from Brazilian federal oil firm Petrobras. According to the report, Atos Bull submitted a bid of 780mn reais (US$138 million), which was the lowest among ….
HPC News Bytes 20250512: China’s SMIC Foundry, Cisco and ‘Quantum Beowulf,’ HPSF Open Source HPC Stack, U.S. Science Brain Drain
May 12, 2025 by
Good mid-May day to you! From the world of HPC-AI we offer a brief (9:10) rundown of recent goings on, including: A look at SMIC ….
Report: TSMC to Operate Intel Fabs under Tentative Joint Venture
April 3, 2025 by
The online technology publication The Information reported today that Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company have reached a tentative agreement to form a joint venture in which TSMC would operate Intel’s chipmaking facilities.
HPC News Bytes 20250310: TSMC’s $100B for Arizona Fabs, New AGI Benchmarks, JSC’s Quantum-Exascale Integration, Chinese Quantum Reported 1Mx Faster than Google’s
March 10, 2025 by
Happy Daylight Savings Time (U.S.) to you! Big things happened in the world of HPC-AI last week….
TSMC to Invest $100B in 3 New U.S. Fabs, Packaging, R&D
March 3, 2025 by
TSMC today said it will expand its investment in advanced semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S. by an additional $100 billion. Building on the company’s ongoing $65 billion investment in its advanced chip fabs in Phoenix, TSMC’s total investment in the U.S. is expected to reach $165 billion.
@HPCpodcast: With Hyperion Research on the Big Trends Across HPC-AI, Quantum, Cloud, Optical, Storage and Interconnects
February 28, 2025 by
We dive into numbers coming out Hyperion’s latest HPC-AI market update, including the strong current and projected industry CAGRs, the state of quantum computing (including thoughts …
HPC News Bytes 20250217: Arm Selling Its Own Chips to Meta?, Big xAI, Big Power, Big… Pollution?, TSMC in Intel Fab Takeover?, Europe’s Big AI Investment, Exascale in Industry
February 17, 2025 by
A happy mid-winter day to you! The HPC-AI world produced its usual extraordinary onslaught of news this past week, here’s …
HPC News Bytes 20250106: ‘Beyond’ EUV Lithography, China Chip Sanction Workaround, Microsoft’s $80B AI Build-Out, TSMC 2nm in 2025
January 6, 2025 by
Here’s a rapid (5:54) rundown of recent news from the HPC-AI sector, including: DOE and LLNL lead effort to go ‘beyond’ EUV lithography, report: ByteDance pursues chip trade sanction workaround, Microsoft’s $80B AI ….
